This activity is intended to introduce students to spreadsheets while also reinforcing concepts …
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This graphic illustrates how atmospheric carbon dioxide is produced during cellular respiration and …
Analyzing Graphics: The Carbon Cycle
This simple activity was designed for intro level biology (life science). Students …
Comparing the Anatomy of Arthropods (Coloring)
High school teachers often assume that their students know how to use basic …
How to Use a Spreadsheet to Create a Graph
This activity can be a good introduction to logic and how fallacies can …
What Are Logical Fallacies?
This worksheet describes the structures of the unicellular protist known as the ameba. …
Color the Cellular Structures of the Ameba
This simple worksheet has two reading passages, similar to what students may see …
Scientific Method in Action
This is a close reading and annotation exercise that can be completed in …
How Can Gene Editing Eliminate Lyme Disease?
This worksheet is similar to the animal cell coloring and the plant cell …
Color a Typical Prokaryote Cell
This case study focuses on a news story whose headline declares that a …
Case Study: How Do Genes Determine Skin Color?
In this activity, students color a DNA molecule according to directions that describe …
DNA Coloring
A short article about autopsies and medical examiners intended for students in anatomy. …
What Is an Autopsy?
This worksheet provides students with practice problems on multiple allele traits, specifically on …
Practice Problems: Genetics and Blood Types
Biology students learn to analyze pedigrees as part of a unit on genetics. …
Analyzing Human Pedigrees
This investigation was designed originally as a case study which included data analysis …
Investigation – Animal Behavior
Food webs are basic concepts in biology and ecology, where students learn the …
Food Web: Identify Consumers
Students learn basic Mendelian genetics by crossing traits from fruit flies and pea …
Practice Genetics: Sex Linked Genes
If your class modeled inheritance using popsicle sticks, this activity builds upon that …
Investigation: Modeling Independent Assortment & Dihybrid Crosses
This handout can be used in discussions on the evolution of bipedalism or …
Compare a Human and Chimpanzee Skeleton
In this activity, you will use popsicle sticks to model the process of …
Investigation: Modeling Heredity with Popsicle Sticks
Students learning basic Mendelian genetics can practice assigning genotypes and identifying heterozygous and …
Simple Genetics Practice Problems
In this investigation, students use balloons and rulers to estimate the vital capacity …
Investigation: What Factors Affect Lung Capacity
Many anatomy classes will require students to learn, in order, the twelve cranial …
How to Learn the 12 Cranial Nerves
This simple activity asks students to cut out shapes of nucleotides, each having …